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Acle is a small market town, now really a village; it was granted its market charter in the 13th century. It became a major cattle-market, receiving a boost when the railway arrived.

The village is in the distance.

The village had once been a centre for lead-mining, but now relied on agriculture and quarrying. In 1902 the railway finally came to Grassington with the opening of a line to Skipton.

Village houses of different ages front the street. The thatched roof has a patterned blocked ridge. Next door is a small pub. The road leads down to the River Ouse and Buckden Mills.

Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.

Apart from the proximity of the railway station which saw the arrival of Royal visitors on their way to Sandringham, Wolferton was and is now a quiet little village.

A former mining village, it wages a continuous battle with stormy seas.

The pretty little village of Barton Mills, and the Bull Inn. In the 13th century, the local retor, Jacobus de Scabellis, became a cardinal, and ultimately, Pope Honorius IV.

Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as 'Weregrave'.

This hilltop village overlooks the head of Gillan Creek at the northern edges of the Lizard, close by the Helford River.

The circuitous narrow road that leads up from the Swaledale village of Keld is being negotiated by an early motorcar.

Three miles from Wellingborough, between the Nene and the Ise, lies the village of Finedon.

It is said that the village had its origins when survivors from a wrecked French ship were washed ashore, and decided to settle in the area.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

It typifies the many small churches to be found in the Hampshire villages.

St Mary's Parish Church c1960 The 15th-century stone tower of this Perpendicular church situated in the heart of the old village, with its 17th- century cupola on the stair turret, was heavily

Elsecar was one of the many collieries which formerly existed in the South Yorkshire coalfield around the village of Hoyland.

Locals pronounce Slaithwaite 'Slawit', and this bustling village in the valley of the River Calder four miles south-west of Huddersfield is another one with Norse origins.

Benjamin Bucknell, the architect who designed Woodchester Park, was born in the village of Rodborough.

This distant view was taken from the north of the linear village of Darley Dale, which spreads along the A6 north of Matlock on the road to Bakewell.

Milborne St Andrew is a favoured village of the ghost-hunter.

Chardstock was a Dorset village until 1886, when it was 'moved' across into Devon. The county border is not far away.

During the rest of the 19th century, the population doubled, turning the village into a continuous linear settlement.